Ivan Oransky
@ivanoransky
Editor in chief, ; Distinguished Writer In Residence, ; co-founder, ; past president, .
Media & News CompanyNorthampton MA and New York NYjournalism.nyu.edu/about-us/profi…Joined August 2008
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What happened when a psychology professor used a peer-reviewed paper to praise his own blog – and slam others’ retractionwatch.com/2022/10/20/wha
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Always a delight to have speak with my SHERP class, including and everyone tagged. Thank you, Stephanie!
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Former medical school dean earns sixth retraction retractionwatch.com/2022/10/19/for
"Many autistic people would find it offensive to be referred to as "children from the stars"." Endorsed, . pubpeer.com/publications/B
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It was a pleasure and a privilege to consult on "We Were Three," the new podcast. I worked with the incomparable Nancy Updike on just the 1st episode, so I was as floored as everyone else by what emerged in episodes 2 and 3. Give them all a listen.
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Elsevier journal retracts nearly 50 papers because they were each accepted on the “positive advice of one illegitimate reviewer report” retractionwatch.com/2022/10/18/els
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Happy Halloween!
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“Radiology researchers reported that scientific fraud and other undesirable practices such as publication bias and honorary authorship are relatively common.”
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‘Mugged by stealth’: Team finds their paper has been plagiarized not once, but twice retractionwatch.com/2022/10/17/mug
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The view from the Fitzgerald Lake Conservation Area trail that runs behind the River Valley Market yesterday afternoon.
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Weekend reads: A bizarre turn in a plagiarism case; lessons of the ‘replication crisis’; special issues redux
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In 1987, the NIH found a paper contained fake data. It was just retracted. retractionwatch.com/2022/10/13/in-
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"The settlement does not eliminate charges for using PACER. But advocates for court transparency say the unusual case has put pressure on the judiciary to overhaul the system and prompted Congress to act."
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‘A big pain’: Professor up to six retractions for plagiarism and manipulated peer review retractionwatch.com/2022/10/13/a-b
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"In the survey, undertaken in September by 187 respondents throughout Australia with PhDs or professorships, almost one in four (24%) generally rated the peer-review system “poor” or “terrible”."
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Always a pleasure to have join my SHERP class and remind us why trade medical journalism is a great career! Note to and other sleuths: This is a manipulated image because I forgot to take a picture of Adam before he left the Zoom.
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The RW Daily: ‘A display of extreme academic integrity’: A grad student who found a key error tells his story. And a critic sues Didier Raoult. mailchi.mp/retractionwatc
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"EL Developer Scott Chappelle -- who sued -- "Sentenced to 38 Months in Federal Prison, Must Pay Over $1.3M."
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‘A display of extreme academic integrity’: A grad student who found a key error praises the original author
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"The number of promotional adjectives used to hype proposed research has increased by more than 1300% in successful grant applications to the National Institutes of Health over the past three and a half decades," reports.
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It is difficult to imagine correction mechanisms in science -- and indeed science itself -- today without PubPeer. Happy birthday, and many more! (Disclosure: I am a member of the board of directors of the PubPeer Foundation.)
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Concussion researcher Paul McCrory earns nine more retractions, nearly 40 expressions of concern retractionwatch.com/2022/10/10/con
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Wow, they've really expanded the indications for statins.
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Weekend reads: Whistleblowers win a victory; a look at COVID-19 retractions; journals as sewage treatment plants retractionwatch.com/2022/10/08/wee
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Paper by gene therapy Zolgensma developer retracted because of discrepancies in mouse survival rates
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OSHA: Holyoke Marijuana Worker Died From Inhalation of Ground Cannabis Dust. By for
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Med school vice dean says he’s correcting paper amid negative misconduct inquiry retractionwatch.com/2022/10/07/med
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A grad student finds a ‘typo’ in a psychedelic study’s script that leads to a retraction retractionwatch.com/2022/10/06/a-g
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"Spin and poor reporting were more frequent in the abstracts, which misleads readers and could lead to inadequate clinical recommendations."
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"...COVID-19 studies were more often than not retracted for non–misconduct-related concerns...which may suggest that COVID-19 studies are subject to a greater level of external scrutiny than non–COVID-19 studies." Includes our .
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When failure to correct a flawed paper could put patients’ lives at risk
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"Offit fears that the federal government’s mistakes in explaining the purpose of the Covid-19 shots and boosters have the potential to undermine public confidence in other vaccines, engendering pushback even against those with decadeslong track records."
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"Our analysis of Italian online news media reporting about a contemporary OS [observational study] published in a major medical journal and dealing with...[COVID-19] has shown that most news articles fail to properly report on the study’s findings."
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